LOTRO Names, Pronunciation Guide

I've seen quite a few requests on these forums for a pronunciation guide for names in the game, and while the awesome Guide to Names covers definitions of common Sindarin words, as well as the pronunciation of some letters in Sindarin, I haven't seen any guide covering pronunciation of words in this game. So I thought I'd create one, and add definitions for fun.

This is meant to be written in layman's terms. No IPA spelling will be used since most people do not understand it, but rather "pronunciation spelling" is used, even though it is not 100% perfect. Thank you to users Aegya, Schirf, lafeeverte, Reniannen and lf2536 for the assistance thus far.

Pronunciation of the sound 'dh' should be a soft 'th', like in 'these'; 'ch' is pronounced like the Welsh 'loch', as in Loch Ness Monster; 'ahy' is meant to sound like the word "I"; 'oo'i' is pronounced like the 'ui' in 'ruin'; 'ih' is meant to sound like the sound 'i' in 'sick', though depending on your accent it may come out sounding like 'ee' in some words; in Khuzdul/Dwarvish, kh is pronounced like 'backhand';. Gondor's Sindarin pronunciation of the letter 'y' is different than the elves' pronunciation, so I added both pronunciations in the respelling of words with 'y', the Gondorian ones labeled with a 'G'. Quite a few of the vowel sounds were difficult to write simply, with non-accented letters, (since I wanted to make it as simple as possible to understand), but I attempted to be accurate. Stress is represented by capital letters in Sindarin words with more than one syllable.

The Finnish pronunciations/translations are brought to you by the native Finnish speaker in my household.

This is a continuous work in progress. If any linguists out there see a mistake (or two or ten) or want to add more, or fill in an unknown, please don't hesitate to post. I am far from an expert, especially on languages like Dwarvish. With the vowels in Dwarvish and Black Speech, long vowel sounds are paired with letters with a circumflex (a little carrot above the letter), and short vowels without, since Tolkien seemed to do that with some languages. There are few translations available of the small amount of Dwarvish we have, and even less in the Black Speech, but I translated what I could. And I am not sure what languages are used for some places, like the tribal peoples of Angmar, so those are left blank; any aid there would be wonderful.

The list goes in alphabetical order by region, and in each region are cities, areas, and landmarks of interest. If anyone has a request for pronunciation for anything, including NPC names, just leave a message here on the thread.